Dreze, Jean 1959–

PERSONAL: Born January 22, 1959, in Louvain, Belgium; son of Jacques and Monique Dreze. Education: University of Essex, B.A.(with honors), 1979; Indian Statistical Institute, Ph.D., 1983.

ADDRESSES: Office—Delhi School of Economics, Delhi 110 007, India; fax: 91-11-2766-7159. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Conducted field work in rural India, 1983–87; University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England, lecturer in economics, 1987–88; freelance development economist, 1988–. Delhi School of Economics, visiting professor at Centre for Development Economics, 1993–.

WRITINGS:

Famine Prevention in India, World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University (Tokyo, Japan), 1988.

(With Amartya Sen) Hunger and Public Action, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1989.

(Editor, with Amartya Sen) The Political Economy of Hunger, three volumes, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1990, excerpts (with Sen and Athar Hussain) published as The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays, 1995.

(Editor, with S.E. Ahmad, J. Hills, and A.K. Sen) Social Security in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1991.

(With Amartya Sen) India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995.

(Coauthor) Widowhood and Poverty in Rural India: Some Inferences from Household Survey Data, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (Mumbai, India), 1995.

(Editor, with Amartya Sen) Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1997.

(Editor, with Meera Samson and Satyajit Singh) The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Anuradha De and others) Public Report on Basic Education in India, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1999.

(Coauthor) The Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze Omnibus: Comprising Poverty and Famines, Hunger and Public Action, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1999.

(Editor) Economics of Famine, Edward Elgar (Northampton, MA), 1999.

(With Geeta Gandhi Kingdon) School Participation in Rural India, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics (Delhi, India), 1999.

(With Mamta Murthi) Fertility, Education, and Development: Further Evidence from India, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics (Delhi, India), 2000.

(With Amartya Sen) India: Development and Participation, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2002.

(With Amartya Sen) Democratic Practice and Social Inequality in India, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India), 2002.